Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is under fire because he has not succeeded in trying to run the city like predecessor Richard M. Daley — "cover up, cover up, stonewall, do whatever you can" — former Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek told
Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
"If it gets out, we'll deal with it," Brzeczek, who served under Daley during the 1980s, told "Newsmax Prime" host Joe Pags. "That was Daley's attitude and Rahm tried to adopt that.
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"The only problem is that Rahm may have talked like a tough guy, but you can see right now he is not a tough guy," he added. "When the chips are down, it's a tough crisis, he's not as tough as he always thought he was."
He added that the city's police are just as negative about Emanuel, who was President Barack Obama's chief of staff, as Chicago's citizens are.
"The police do not like Rahm, there's no question about it," Brzeczek told Pags. "If you read the police blogs, you'll see what they have to say about him — and it's not favorable."
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